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October 30, 2025

• 02:0702:07, October 30, 2025 diff hist +155 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Leisure Suit Larry packaging cover.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 100. Leisure Suit Larry, loosely based on Softporn, but greatly enhanced and with added graphics. current
• 02:0602:06, October 30, 2025 diff hist +141 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Softporn Adventure Time Magazine article.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 98. Time magazine showcasing Sierra's Softporn game helped make it an enormous hit. current
• 02:0502:05, October 30, 2025 diff hist +116 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Softporn Adventure cover.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 98. The "infamous" picture used on the Softporn packaging. current
• 02:0402:04, October 30, 2025 diff hist +135 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Softporn Adventure cover photoshoot.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 97. Setting up for the big picture. That's me hiding in the back on the left. current
• 02:0302:03, October 30, 2025 diff hist +92 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Softporn Adventure screenshot.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 95. Softporn Adventure screenshot. current
• 02:0302:03, October 30, 2025 diff hist +177 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Jawbreaker screenshot.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 93. Jawbreaker, Sierra's Pac-Man ripoff, modified to avoid copyright infringement. It went on to be a landmark lawsuit. current
• 02:0102:01, October 30, 2025 diff hist +141 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings John Harris.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 92. John Harris, Atari programming guru. Wrote Jawbreaker and Frogger arcade games. current
• 02:0102:01, October 30, 2025 diff hist +142 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Gobbler Apple II packaging cover.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 91. Sierra's ripoff of Pac-Man. Who knew about copyright infringement in those days? current
• 01:5901:59, October 30, 2025 diff hist +72 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Crossfire Apple II gameplay screenshot.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 91. Crossfire. current
• 01:5901:59, October 30, 2025 diff hist +133 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Crossfire Apple II Title screenshot.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 90. Crossfire by Jay Sullivan. Addictive early action game on the Apple II. current
• 01:5701:57, October 30, 2025 diff hist +178 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Edsger W Dijkstra.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 88. Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930-2002). Who perhaps had nothing to do with this story, but why let that hurt a good parable? current
• 01:5501:55, October 30, 2025 diff hist +145 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Tortoise and Hare.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 79. The whole concept of what it means to "go fast" is not as clear as you might think. current
• 01:5401:54, October 30, 2025 diff hist +115 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 77. Book cover Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. current

October 29, 2025

• 02:0302:03, October 29, 2025 diff hist −2 m Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings →Chapter 12: (1980) Color Makes It Better Tags: Manual revert 2017 source edit
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• 01:4001:40, October 29, 2025 diff hist +2,011 m Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings →Chapter 11: (1980) Wouldn’t It Be Cool to Live in The Mountains? Tag: 2017 source edit
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• 01:2701:27, October 29, 2025 diff hist +1,440 m Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings →Chapter 10: (1980) A Brief Flirtation with Software Distribution Tag: 2017 source edit
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• 01:1101:11, October 29, 2025 diff hist −5 m Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings →Chapter 9: Let’s Talk About Letters Tag: 2017 source edit
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• 00:4400:44, October 29, 2025 diff hist +2,078 m Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings →Chapter 8: (1980) Roberta Gives Birth (And, It’s a Game AND a Company!) Tag: 2017 source edit

October 28, 2025

• 03:3103:31, October 28, 2025 diff hist −14 m Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings →Chapter 8: (1980) Roberta Gives Birth (And, It’s a Game AND a Company!) Tag: 2017 source edit
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• 02:5302:53, October 28, 2025 diff hist +1,009 m Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings →Chapter 8: (1980) Roberta Gives Birth (And, It’s a Game AND a Company!) Tag: 2017 source edit
• 02:4802:48, October 28, 2025 diff hist +100 m Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings →Chapter 8: (1980) Roberta Gives Birth (And, It’s a Game AND a Company!) Tag: 2017 source edit
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• 00:4300:43, October 28, 2025 diff hist +112 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Ulysses and the Golden Fleece screenshot.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 76. Hi-Res Adventure #4 Ulysses and the Golden Fleece. current
• 00:4200:42, October 28, 2025 diff hist +125 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Wizard and the Princess packaging cover.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 75. Wizard and the Princess, Sierra's first "color" adventure game. current
• 00:4100:41, October 28, 2025 diff hist +179 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Wizard and the Princess screenshots.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 73. Pictures from Wizard and the Princess, showing limitations of mixing certain colors within the same 8 pixel boundary. current
• 00:4000:40, October 28, 2025 diff hist +132 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Book Apple II Computer Graphics.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 72. Apple II Computer Graphics. Ken "wrote the book" on Apple II graphics. current
• 00:3900:39, October 28, 2025 diff hist +153 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Mystery House screenshot Roberta Williams.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 71. Mystery House screenshot. Roberta Williams, Game Designer (But perhaps not a great artist). current
• 00:3800:38, October 28, 2025 diff hist +99 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Roberta and Ken Williams Circa 1980.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 69. Roberta and Ken Williams, Circa 1980. current
• 00:3700:37, October 28, 2025 diff hist +144 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings 36575 Mudge Ranch Road Coarsegold CA.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 68. 36575 Mudge Ranch Road, Coarsegold, CA. Ken and Roberta's first home in the woods. current
• 00:3600:36, October 28, 2025 diff hist +90 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Bass Lake near Oakhurst CA.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 67. Bass Lake near Oakhurst, CA. current
• 00:3500:35, October 28, 2025 diff hist +77 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Ford Pinto.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 66. The Ford Pinto. current
• 00:3400:34, October 28, 2025 diff hist +133 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Early Sierra advertisement.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 62. Roberta and I answered the phones, took orders and shipped the product. current
• 00:3300:33, October 28, 2025 diff hist +218 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Early Sierra game packaging.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 61. Roberta did our game packaging on the first five of these packages. We were lucky she decided to be a game designer instead of a painter. We'd have starved. current
• 00:3100:31, October 28, 2025 diff hist +99 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings One of Sierras first advertisements.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 60. One of Sierra's first advertisements. current
• 00:3000:30, October 28, 2025 diff hist +164 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings People Pyramid.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 57. This implies most people are C and below. Is it good to rank people? And, where are you on this chart? current
• 00:2900:29, October 28, 2025 diff hist +95 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Original Mystery House Packaging.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 54. Original Mystery House Packaging. current
• 00:2700:27, October 28, 2025 diff hist +106 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Mystery House screen image.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 49. The game that started it all: Mystery House. current
• 00:2600:26, October 28, 2025 diff hist +88 N File:Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings VersaWriter Ad.jpg Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 48. VersaWriter advertisement. current

October 27, 2025

• 04:5504:55, October 27, 2025 diff hist +858 m Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings No edit summary Tag: 2017 source edit
• 04:5304:53, October 27, 2025 diff hist +6,145 m Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings →Chapter 7: (1979) Roberta Has An Excellent Idea Tag: 2017 source edit